2 Cents Quotes

#1. I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.

David Boies

#2. A bullet costs 2 cents, anyone can afford that

Sherman Alexie

#3. They wanna know why, I'm so fly, a girl asked me for a ring and I put one around her whole eye I'm looking nothing like ya poppa, I wouldn't give a chick ten cents, to put cheese on a whopper.

Big L

#4. Now there's a black market for toys at our school. Christopher Stangel brought in a bunch of Legos from home yesterday, and I hear a single brick will set you back fifty cents.

Jeff Kinney

#5. I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can't go down to zero. It can.

Peter Cundill

#6. You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#7. I reckon I'll be at the beck and call of folks with money all my life, but thank God I won't ever again have to be at the beck and call of every son of a bitch who's got two cents to buy a stamp.

William Faulkner

#8. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life I have never obstructed justice,

Richard M. Nixon

#9. I refuse to dispense chewable advice for free. I'm not a bubblegum machine. No, my fees are 25 cents higher.

Jarod Kintz

#10. This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

Langston Hughes

#11. Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., in New York's best cocktail bar, after tipping a busboy 50 cents for a martini. It's hard not to draw conclusions as to which is the brighter sex.

Caitlin Moran

#12. People will pay for great services. They said they wouldn't pay 99 cents for a song but they did. We've always believed that. When you go to work, you don't work for free; nobody works for free. Nobody can say, "I want to work for free." Nobody says that.

Eddy Cue

#13. A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. In 1951, Aerojet provided an employee cafeteria that featured roast prime rib of beef (seventy-five cents) on Thursdays, New York steaks (eighty-five cents) on Wednesdays and lobster (seventy-five cents) on Friday.

Maryellen Burns

#15. It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Stephen Leacock

#16. Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

Charles A. Dana

#17. You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Jorge Luis Borges

#18. Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Lilly Ledbetter

#19. Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.

Wil Wheaton

#20. I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

Guy Fieri

#21. I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Johnny Gimble

#22. It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar.

Thomas Perez

#23. The difference between two cents and one cent is small. But the difference between one cent and zero is huge!

Dan Ariely

#24. A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Gene Fowler

#25. I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

Marguerite Moreau

#26. Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

Louis Rukeyser

#27. My dear, dear girl [ ... ] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire
a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron
which we cannot get back.

Thomas Wolfe

#28. Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

Clint Johnson

#29. A baby is a wishing well. Everyone puts their hopes, their fears, their pasts, their two cents in.

Elizabeth Bard

#30. Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

Charles Bukowski

#31. Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.

Selena

#32. This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?

Spencer Tracy

#33. They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.

David Lee Roth

#34. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

Mordecai Richler

#36. One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'

Trent Reznor

#37. Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.

Madonna Ciccone

#38. Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

Gary Johnson

#39. He's meeting his girl now, a girl not much older than 14. A five-and-ten-cents store Cleopatra, a four letter word.

Kurt Vonnegut

#40. Imports remain a concern with the currency holding at $US0.75 cents and cost pressures persist, in particular for power and transport.

Christofer Drew